Test 9 · ★ · Water, deserts and the shape of the land

"which is longer nile or amazon, just tell me the answer" What's the honest reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: answer · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: longer nile, answer, honest reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 16 «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 nile	punct
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 nile	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nile	cop
4	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nile	amod
5	nile	nile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 amazon	cc
7	amazon	amazon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nile	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nile	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 answer	det
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 reply	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 reply	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reply	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 reply	det
18	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 reply	amod
19	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answer	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nile	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		longer nile or amazon		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the answer	the answer = answer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient answer=Topic
3	be speech: assert	present	the answer	the honest reply		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They are exactly the same length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 length	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 length	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 length	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 length	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 length	amod
6	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the same length				exactly property	tree rules

Option 2

The Nile, everyone agrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Nile	det
2	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 agrees	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nile	punct
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 agrees	nsubj
5	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	the Nile						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Usually the Nile, but experts disagree about where they start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Usually	usually	ADV	_	7 disagree	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Nile	det
3	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 disagree	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 disagree	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 disagree	cc
6	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 disagree	nsubj
7	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 start	mark
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 start	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 start	nsubj
11	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 disagree	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	the Nile					usually property	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start	present	experts = expert						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

The Amazon, everyone agrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Amazon	det
2	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 agrees	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Amazon	punct
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 agrees	nsubj
5	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	the Amazon						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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